Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thalassaemia

1 sense of thalassaemia

Sense 1
thalassemia, thalassaemia, Mediterranean anemia, Mediterranean anaemia -- (an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin)
       => hypochromic anemia, hypochromic anaemia -- (anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)